Battletech

$5 says some sort of ice dragon shows up, turns out the white walkers are like their avatars, and the Targaryeans are basically what's left of the fire dragons' avatars after the Doom.

Read The Princess and the Queen. What really ends up happening is that dragons become so necessary to both sides' war efforts that they almost never risk using them in an engagement

I really doubt there's a good parallel between the Third World and Mereen and Astapor and the Free Cities. They seem to be on about equal development levels as Westeros, just culturally different.

" With just three dragons and fewer than 2,000 combatants, Aegon Targaryen had previously brought most of a continent under his rule, with no time or treasure frittered away in rallying men or building fleets and armaments."

oh, that's there. But given that in the American civil system each party bears their own costs absent a fee shifting statute, regardless of outcome, you can have one crazy person plaintiff necessitating inordinate amounts of a defendant's money for frivolous reasons.

yeah no kidding. But try to remember what you were doing at 21 and if it involved dealing with complex interpersonal issues or the potential for someone to stay in prison for a couple decades. People grow up a lot in their mid 20s

Actually the guy who was the attorney in the Erin Brockovich cases (Ed Masrey?) only completed like 2-3 years of college before enrolling in law school.

Touché, salesman

you can still "read for the bar" in california. Unfortunately it means working for a lawyer or judge while doing it, and you have to take the baby bar to sit for the real bar.

model rules aren't binding... Except to the extent that they've been adopted by the various states. And 49/50 have adopted them in whole or in part. So it's kind of a tomato/tomato thing.

It's an instant red flag EVERYWHERE. God, the shit these people write.

you've obviously never had to deal with a pro per conspiracy theorist and all his time-wasting baseless motions grounded in a completely wrong understanding of case and statutory law

you're just giving him what he wants

as to (1) it's not all that different from how lawyers in the pre-bar association US were admitted to practice

1) it's "counsel" as in "counselor" not council

You missed the part where secondary lactase persistence evolved independently in East Africa. Convergent evolution wut?

"The nature of the preserved skeleton, he contends, is proof of a rapid burial, which he interprets as confirmation of a global catastrophic flood a few thousand years ago."

"stands out for a few major reasons. It was found with its bones arranged in their correct anatomical positions relative to each other, rather…

but, apparently, still culturally relevant

Agh, TV bleedover. You're correct. Though I suspect the abortion would still count toward her dead children limit (except no cloths of gold. w/e, I just want GRRM to get back to writing.)